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The class is the introduction to issues concerning sports business. Over the last 30 years, the sports business has grown by increasing its business potential and appealing its value to society. In this class, while introducing the development process of the sports business, we will consider what should be done in order for the sports business to support the following examples in the future society. a) What should be done to play sports in a better environment, b) How to support top athletes, and c) How to increase the number of people who pay to watch and support sports.
Strategic Management is both a topic of management studies and a daily activity of management professionals. This course firstly introduces the economics-based theories developed by management scholars who consider strategic management as an empirical field of social science. Further, this course also covers the basic frameworks developed for practitioners and the cases of strategic management conducted on the ground by business leaders, in order for the participants to learn how management professionals conduct strategic management in the modern business environment.
This course aims at providing students with basic understanding on a startup business,
spotlighting a business plan centric way that is a legacy method for creating a business and a design thinking way that the first cornerstone of a new business is made by empathy to the problem you find. The feature of this class is:
There are many opportunities to interact with the guest speakers with diversified
experiences, showing the know-how to make a business success and turn over the critical situation of managing a company.
Students is expected to participate in-class exercises and discussions to learn the real of creating/finding a market and a business. For example, the class introduces a new business model such as an energy aggregator and a retailer in an electricity power market where a big company monopolized for many years.
Tuesday classes will be held on-line and Friday classes are in-person only.
In this course, we will explore social participation from the perspective of "creating a life, creating a society." Each participant will reflect on their own life and its connection to society, think about how to create systems that promote social participation, and work towards implementing these ideas. Additionally, we will invite guest speakers who are actively engaging in "creating a life" and "creating a society" by involving diverse people. Through their experiences, we will learn about co-creating social change, moving away from traditional one-way support and service provision.
This course will give lectures on game theory to analyze the strategic interdependence of people and organizations in society, from the beginning to relatively advanced contents. Rather than pursuing mathematical rigor, I would like to give priority to students mainly to understand game theoretical way of thinking. Therefore, advanced mathematical knowledge is not required, but the explanation itself is quite logical.
The content to be dealt mainly with orthodox noncooperative game theory, but includes recent topics on bounded rationality (evolutionary game theory) and experiments in strategic interaction, and part of cooperative game theory. The participants of this lecture should not be satisfied with superficially describing complex social phenomena, but through active analysis using the framework of such game theory, I want you to acquire a clear understanding of the mechanism of social phenomena and flexible thinking that excludes fixed ideas on social problems.
This class aims to help students to improve their decision-making skills by using the insights of behavioral economics, group dynamics, and organizational behavior..
Several topics on Career and Society will be discussed in this course. As society changes and work also changes, how does working and the ability to work change, and how does one's career development change? On the other hand, even as society and work change, there are some essential issues that are common to the times in the issues faced by organizations and the careers of individuals.
This course will consider these issues from the micro perspective of work and individuals as well as from the macro perspective of organizations and society and will not include macro discussions such as quantitative analysis of employment issues, as in labor economics. The aim of this course is to understand the essential issues of organizations and individuals and the concept of career development in an era of change, to develop one's own ability to develop one's career, and to be a meaningful course for those who wish to be active in the future in the fields of corporate human resources, human resources business, education for adults, career education, etc.
While getting a real feel for business, the students will be able to confirm and understand the movements of the financial and accounting figures behind the scenes, and acquire the minimum necessary knowledge and skills for when they actually have to work in the business field.
Specifically, we will analyze information based on (1) financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement) and (2) non-financial information (not shown in financial statements), which is descriptive information disclosed by companies.
Four-fifths of the lecture will deal with (1). The rest of the lecture deals with (2). Especially in today's world, it has become a matter of course for businesspeople to be able to do (1). Recently, the importance of (2) has been increasing as companies take ESG measures. Specifically, environmental response costs, the status of investment in human resources, and the status of governance.
In order to become a person who will be responsible for management in the future, whether or not you have the perspective of business analysis will have a major impact.
This course explores both academic and practical aspects of leadership. Leadership is one of the most studies themes in management studies. At the same time, leadership is one of the most important capabilities in practice in this complex, uncertain society. We aim to understand various topics in leadership such as what leadership really means, how we can develop and practice leadership, and what leadership we need in the future.
Organizations increasingly rely on technologies to operate, organize, and innovate in this digital/big data era. This course focuses on the relationship between technologies and organizations: how technologies shape organizational practices and performances, and how technologies transform the way we work, facilitate collaboration across space and time, and afford new forms of organizing and innovating. It is essential for managers to understand and utilize technologies to successfully manage and solve current organizational and managerial problems. Topics covered in this course include the IT impact on organizations, new forms of organizing such as online communities, social media, and digital platforms, IT-enabled open innovation, and the future of work with cutting-edge digital technologies including AI, algorithms, automation and data analytics.
The learning will take place via multiple aspects combining class discussions, lectures, case studies, and a group project. The class will cover various topics that represent cutting-edge issues in management and technologies based on seminal and most advanced research and practices in technologies and organizations. These topics are chosen to complement learning in other courses and will introduce important concepts, perspectives, frameworks, and approaches that are necessary and timely for a career in managing organizations and technologies.
Students are expected to attend the class fully prepared to discuss the assigned readings. You need to read articles or a case beforehand and contribute to in-class discussions. Active participation is the key to learning in this course. You will actively engage with the discussions in class to collectively make sense the assigned readings and understand the practical implications of the readings and topics covered in the class. You are also expected to reflect what you have learned in the class and to take into account those learning for your group project. Theoretical perspectives, frameworks, and findings of the literature will help you think deeply and guide you how you can address business/managerial problems you face in the real-world practice.
The class is the introduction to issues concerning sports business. Over the last 30 years, the sports business has grown by increasing its business potential and appealing its value to society. In this class, while introducing the development process of the sports business, we will consider what should be done in order for the sports business to support the following examples in the future society. a) What should be done to play sports in a better environment, b) How to support top athletes, and c) How to increase the number of people who pay to watch and support sports.
Recently, social venture is gaining increasing attention. A typical case would be a creation of a new social service related to a life with more spiritual richness, or a use of business method to help solve or improve social issues due to rapid change in the society.
This course is not for internship in such social ventures (if you are interested in internship, consider “Internship in Nonprofit Organizations”). This course is for participating in practical social activities and gaining experience; it is an action-oriented and experience-based program aiming to enrich your career design options.
The purpose of this course is to study the systems and mechanisms of organizational communication and their impact on organizational effectiveness and dynamism of interpersonal relations. This course mainly focuses on several theories in organizational psychology such as leadership, motivation, organizational development, career development, and cross-cultural management. In the first half of this course, students will learn these theories. In the latter half of this course, students will study organizational communication from practical perspectives. Organizational communication has been becoming more important, as organizational members (corporate employees) have been getting increasingly diversified. Although the teaching style of this course is lecture, students are expected to learn organizational communication deeply enough to apply it to their future careers.
This class aims to help students to improve their negotiation skills through exercises, class discussions, and lectures.
This course explores both academic and practical aspects of leadership. Leadership is one of the most studies themes in management studies. At the same time, leadership is one of the most important capabilities in practice in this complex, uncertain society. We aim to understand various topics in leadership such as what leadership really means, how we can develop and practice leadership, and what leadership we need in the future.
Public Relations (PR) is a very important activity for increase corporate value for not only companies but also nonprofit organizations such as government and NPO.
In this class, we will mainly learn the marketing theory, the historical changes and cases of PR about how organizations can build and maintain better relationships with public.
The participants will acquire the way of thinking the PR strategy.
This course is a two-period, intensive course that combines lectures, exercises, and group work to experience experiments and research on basic concepts, theories, and marketing and consumer research models. This year, we will take up the development of university education services as an issue and examine "Analysis and Strategy of Market Environment," "Consumer Purchasing Decision," "Consumption Pattern Analysis," "Price and Promotion," "Brand Building," and "New Products and Popularization." In addition, participants will be asked to present their marketing plans at the final debriefing session (as a group) and submit a report on each survey/experiment (as an individual).
Social entrepreneur and social business are the business that aims to solve social problems(Welfare, environmental measures, education, poverty, and international cooperation) such as the government and the market has not been able to solve so far.
Solving social problems requires a new way of thinking that connects people in difficult situations with social resources. Social entrepreneurs use business methods to ensure that the system is sustainable.
In recent years, with increasing interest in climate change and SDGs, many companies are also interested in social business.
This class is designed for students who will start up social business and who will work in the government, social enterprise and foundation. They will learn the ideas and perspectives of social business, actually do the planning of social business.
Waiting for students who want to act themselves in order to create a good society.
In this course, students will learn how to create a new business, and the revenue forecasting, financial management, and fundraising necessary to do so, based on a textbook during the first five weeks, and then actually create a business plan during the latter two weeks in group works.
Social participation of individuals is one of many ways to address issues in a community or society. There is a growing expectation to the social participation of individuals from the perspectives of addressing diverse social issues and individual autonomy, but in reality, it is difficult to make one’s first step. This course is an experience learning program in which students take initiatives to interact and cooperate with NPO staff, housewives and employees of public and private sectors to propose an experiment or a suggestion for building a mechanism to enhance “social participation of individuals”. Through the process of learning, students will consider the significance and possibility of social participation of individuals. This course also aims to provide learning opportunities which can be an anchorage to position social engagement in one’s life-career.
Fieldwork is a comprehensive social research that attempts to capture the reality of human life by visiting the field and combining various techniques such as observation, interviews, and document collection. In this class, students will learn about fieldwork from the research experiences of researchers, and then actually experience and plan small-scale fieldwork.
This course provides a broad overview of history and phenomena of NPOs and NGOs in Japan. We consider the possibilities and challenges of NPOs/NGOs through the various perspectives and actual cases. The activities of NPOs/NGOs have pioneered new social business and have played key roles in various fields of environment, international aid, social welfare, and education. We have understood that the emergence of NPOs has been significant since the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake in Kobe. However, the history and the reality have not been fully well known, even though NPOs in private sector have taken roles historically in public-interest activities in Japan.
The objective of this class is to understand the history, the current situation and the characteristics of NPOs/NGOs in Japan from actual cases and various data. The goal is not to understand “know-how” of establishment and management of NPOs, but to be able to explain significance of existence, effectiveness and potentiality of such activities and organizations based on objective facts and your own ideas.
This class provides an understanding of the methodology of qualitative research, where you will understand the basic process of social research through the actual small-scale qualitative survey. It is more important to understand how to see and understand things happening in our society than to know the technique itself.
The goal of this class is to learn the basic knowledge of qualitative research methods used in sociology and anthropology, and to understand the basic process of them through conducting small-scale surveys.
This class sets off by imagining that society of the future will be a “Creative Society” where each and every person makes full use of their own creativity that they originally hold within themselves. In this course, you will learn about the theory related to creativity and collaboration and also attractive cutting-edge cases, then you will try your own practice.
Fieldwork is a way to learn about society and culture. Therefore, its practical meaning as a technique is essential. Still, it is also closely related to how to look at things to define problems for oneself and communication to interpret and express the results of research and analysis. In this lecture, students will learn the basic methods and attitudes of "fieldwork" through courses and practical assignments. Each student (or group) will set a theme and conduct fieldwork throughout the semester. Students are required to go outside the campus, walk around the city, take photos and videos, and first of all, see with their own eyes and feel with their bodies.